1916
Lincoln Filene's eightieth birthday on April 9 was marked by 1916 with a dinner in honor of our classmate at the University Club of Boston. The career of this gentleman merchant is well known to the world at large; he is universally admired for his success in his chosen calling, for his books, and for his substantial achievements in public welfare. But for 1916, Lincoln Filene is rather more than a great man; he is a kind and understanding friend and companion. Our admiration for him is great, our affection greater. We rejoice with him and he with us,on this occasion.
Lincoln Filene was present on the evening of February 28 when igi6 gathered with the Alumni of Boston for dinner at the Copley Plaza. President Hopkins and Captain Cummings USN, Commanding Officer of the Dartmouth V-12 Unit, addressed the group and gave a clear account of the current and future problems of the College. Also present from 1916 were Bailey, Bean, Bobst, Cutler, Dinsmoor, Fuller, Hayden, Jardine, Newmark, Steinert, Tapley, Walker. All these factors contributed to make the meeting successful in the extreme.
The Alumni of New York are to meet on April 26 at the Hotel Pennsylvania for dinner and to hear President Hopkins and Captain Cummings USN. Ross Magill will officiate as toastmaster for this occasion, at which one thousand guests are confidently expected, and Park Larmon serves as the 1916 representative in planning the affair. Who can doubt that we shall again demonstrate the unity of the Dartmouth family?
News from our classmates in service is plentiful as usual. Col. John Ames has been decorated, as we announced last month, with the Croix de Guerre avec etoile de vermeil. Boston papers recently carried a U. S. Army Signal Corps picture of John being decorated by Lt. Gen. Louis Koeltz, French General Staff. John has also been awarded the Bronze Star Medal by the U. S. Army. Lt. Col. Louis Bell has been in France for some time, after service in England and Ireland. He reports that he "finds the life healthy and interesting;" he serves as adjutant general at the headquarters of the Reinforcement Depot. Major Phillips N. Davis is now recuperating from wounds received at St. Lo last August. The citation accompanying his Purple Heart Medal refers to Phil's "unusual courage under fire." His address is 311 Bridge St., Weatherford, Texas. Write to him.
Gran Fuller is in Washington, in charge of the Lumber Section, Smaller War Plants Corporation. His address is now 123 C St. S.E., and his telephone is 2555. Gran expects to be in Washington "most of the time during the next seven months." Millicent George, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Henry George of Concord, N. H., was recently married to Conrad T. Waldie Jr., Lieutenant (jg) USNR. Cliff and Peg Bean and Larry and Lee Hayward were present to represent 1916. Millicent has been serving as recreational worker for the Red Cross at Fort Devens. Heinie's boy Ralph Jr. enlisted as a Naval aviation cadet in 1942, while a sophomore at New Hampshire University. He was trained at Williams College, Roanoke College, University of Georgia, and Pensacola. He recently joined the "Caterpillar Club" when he parachuted from his plane when flying in formation. Erwin Gifford's boy Bob is now training at Fort Meade and is expected to go overseas soon. Ruby McFalls has three sons, one in the USAAF in Texas, another in V-5 in Cleveland, and the third attending Kimball Union Academy. John Hyde Mensel serves as Director of Purchases, Day and Zimmermann Inc., lowa Ordnance Plant. Jake, in jocular vein, requests that we run an ad for a pipe-organ which will "go low on bass notes" so that Ward, Parkhurst, and Mensel can harmonize. Olin Smith writes that his daughter Dorothy serves in the Spars. He is well and busy as vice president of Fox and Fox, finishers to the printing and lithographing trades, of Buffalo. Olin lives at East Aurora. James Desmond lives in Los Angeles, works as a production engineer, and has two daughters, one in elementary school and the other in Junior High.
We have had one short letter asking about the health of the acting secretary. This constitutes a popular demand; we find the topic of our personal health fascinating anyway. Don't you? Well, just to show you, we have noticed that we get up at six every morning and begin lecturing, whether we have a class or not—this is tough on the family but not serious probably. We have also discovered that we fall down on the ice pretty often this spring and that it makes our pistol-pocket feel a mite middle-aged for the nonce, but, bless you, we get right up in no time. Fact is, if our general health were any better, the moral tone of our select neighborhood might suffer something of a set-back this spring. How you feeling yourself?
Changes of address: William P. Costello, c/o Magidelbaum, 43-38 39th Place, Long Is land City 4, N. Y.; Edward T. Doyle, 21 West 58th St., N. Y. 19, N. Y.; Robert W. McClure, 135 N. Meredith Ave., Pasadena 4, Cal.; Lt. Russell B. Perkins, 2111 Loma Vista St., Pasadena, Cal.; Leighton W. Rogers, c/o Edith B. Rogers, Chateau Lafayette, Green- wich, Conn.
A FUTURE '66 GRAD, Michael Edward Suehle, isheld by his grandfather, Art Jopson '17, whostates his grandson is a real "letterman."
Secretary, 4000 Cathedral Ave., N.W., Washington 16, D. C. Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 34 White Oak Road Wellesley Hills, Mass.
